On Jul 5, 2005, at 4:35 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Also, you'll notice that one of the most accomplished engravers on
this list, Johannes Gebauer, now uses GPO -- and in fact was
recently complaining that GPO-Finale integration in 2k5 leaves a
lot to be desired, and requires far too much hand-tweaking. I
happen to agree -- hell, I'm sure anyone who uses GPO and Finale
agrees -- and I'm very much looking forward to the improvements
Fin2006 promises in this area.
I am beginning to fear for Finale's continued well-being -- those
of us on this list who care about GPO probably already have it!
And those of us who don't have it probably don't really care about
it.
That's demonstrably not true. Lots of people on this list have
expressed an interest in GPO, but are still sitting on the fence,
or waiting to see what Fin2006 brings, or waiting until they
upgrade their machines, or waiting to see what the sample GPO
instruments included in Fin2k6 sound like, etc. More to the point,
there's been a tremendous interest on the GPO forums about Finale
integration, with lots of GPO users considering switching to Finale
because of the tighter integration in Fin2k6.
Hi Darcy et al,
Just got off the phone with Gary Garritan, who is coming to
Bellingham tomorrow for more recording of samples, and he expressed
pleasure at how the integration of GPO instruments is handled in
Finale 2006 - no GPO Studio interface - just automatic loading of
instruments and key switches. As one who appreciates an improvement
in playback quality, doesn't imagine that it will ever be more than a
"sketch" of a real performance, and doesn't enjoy fussing with
settings to control all that (I'm often happy enough to suffer with
defaults rather than get into deep level tweaking - quite the
opposite of how I feel about the graphic end of things), this seems
like a good development to me.
On the other hand, I would find controllable linking of scores and
parts to be an almost unimaginable boon - a terrific time saver.
Finale must survive in a market in which people use it for many
different things at many levels of naivete and expertise. It doesn't
bother me when things that are useless to me are added (Auto
harmonizer - ughh!) as long as I see progress in those things that
are important in my work. Seems to me that we are all in pretty much
the same boat and simply have to continue to express our personal
concerns to MM realizing that others will be doing the same and
wanting other things.
Chuck
Chuck Israels
230 North Garden Terrace
Bellingham, WA 98225-5836
phone (360) 671-3402
fax (360) 676-6055
www.chuckisraels.com
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